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Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited to Present at NZ Minerals Forum 2018
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nChatham Rock Phosphate Limited to Present at NZ Minerals Forum 2018\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nWELLINGTON, NZ, Feb. 8, 2018\n\n\n\nWELLINGTON, NZ, Feb. 8, 2018 /CNW/ - Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (TSXV: \"NZP\" and NZAX: \"CRP\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has been invited to present at the NZ Minerals Forum 2018, to be held in Queenstown in May this year.\n\nThe event, which is supported by the New Zealand Government (NZ Petroleum & Minerals), Straterra and Freeman Media, is designed to showcase New Zealand's minerals potential and to attract new investors to New Zealand.\n\nIt's a tribute to our project that we have been selected to deliver the opening presentation in the company investment opportunities section. Registrations to date already confirm that this event has attracted hundreds of focused potential investors and Chatham intends to take full advantage of this marketing opportunity.\n\nTo learn more about the conference, visit www.mineralsforum.co.nz \n\nAbout Chatham Rock PhosphateChatham Rock Phosphate is the custodian of New Zealand's only material resource of environmentally friendly pastoral phosphate fertiliser. Our key role is connecting the resource with those who need it.\n\nUsing this phosphate will support sustainable farming practices, including healthier soils and reduced accumulation of the heavy metal cadmium, dramatically lowering runoff to waterways and shrinking fertiliser needs over time.\n\nThe resource has an estimated worth of $5 to $7 billion, representing one of New Zealand's most valuable mineral assets and is of huge strategic significance because phosphate is essential to maintain New Zealand's high agricultural productivity.\n\nNew Zealand's current access to phosphate is vulnerable to economic and political events in the six countries controlling 98% of the world's phosphate reserves, with 85% of the total in the Western Saharan state of Morocco.\n\nChatham takes very seriously the responsibility vested in it through its mining permit to use the...